Former prime minister Gordon Brown proposes rights to health care and housing. Will Sir Keir Starmer agree?
, the leader of the Labour Party, is a bit of a riddle. As a young lawyer in the 1990s, he was a rising star of the human-rights bar. New Labour’s Human Rights Act had led to a small revolution in Britain’s legal landscape. Sir Keir was in the vanguard: he churned out dense textbooks, helped free death-row prisoners in Africa, won titanic free-speech trials and became the joint head of his cutting-edge chambers.
The paper, which was unveiled on December 5th, is meant to lay the groundwork for the party’s manifesto at the next election, due by January 2025. Many of its recommendations are unsurprising, and designed to tackle long-running sores in British politics. It proposes scrapping the largely appointed House of Lords and replacing it with a new Assembly of the Nations and Regions.
A Labour government could go still further, Mr Brown suggests, and create rights relating to fair working conditions and culture. He floats the idea of a bold constitutional obligation to even out Britain’s patchy economy. Overseeing it all would be the newly empowered upper chamber of Parliament, protecting such statutes from being easily amended by MPs and thus creating a de facto written constitution.
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